I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
More Sylvia Plath Quotes
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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
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I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Opinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
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Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out.
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There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
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Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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I find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
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The abstract kills, the concrete saves.
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Only I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
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I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
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The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
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